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ritualist the common point is that both insist that their stand is correct and that they would not leave it. Both feel that purely by their methods alone can truth be realized. None of them is fit to be a seeker of Liberation. Both run after pride and personal fame and so they run in the direction counter to that of truth.
नहि कषाय उपशांतता, नहि अंतर वैराग्य ।
सरळपणुं न मध्यस्थता, ए मतार्थी दुर्भाग्य ॥३२॥ Nahi kashaya upashantata, nahi antara vairagya, Saralapanu na madhyasthata, e matarthi durbhagya. 32 Controls no passions and the heartContains no unattachment true, No frankness and no open heart, Unfortunate that bigot too. 32
Here is a very wide definition of a bigot. One who observes a religious discipline externally having no desire to remove or lessen his personal demerits such as anger, desire for honour, delusion and greed is also a very unfortunate bigot. Such a bigot is more attached to the worldly pleasure and therefore he is far from deserving Liberation. He is a bigot till he does not feel the worldly life as most painful to him. He can very well perform external religious rites, he may successfully talk of knowledge and Liberation by knowledge, he may even preach to others to keep away completely from the worldly pleasures though himself feeling that he should monopolise them.
On the contrary a seeker of the Self should have an open mind to receive Truth. One cannot be a seeker of the Self till he does not develop discrimination, till he has no intelligence to perceive Truth and declare it as such, till he has a guilty mind. The bigots described as above are really unfortunate as they are incapable of self-realization.
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